subignition

Oh, oof

Maintainer hostility? This person’s account of their own issue appears extraordinarily inaccurate

well, that article disagrees with you though. That “feature” is only going to do anything to Windows installations.

Also, OS doesn’t matter if it’s a bios update.

The ASUS UEFI firmware exposes an ACPI table to Windows 10, called “WPBT” or “Windows Platform Binary Table”. WPBT is used in the pre-built OEM industry, and is referred to as “the Vendor’s Rootkit.” Put simply, it is a script that makes Windows copy data from the BIOS to the System32 folder on the machine and execute it during Windows startup - every single time the system is booted.

also, https://github.com/Jamesits/dropWPBT

Pikmin truthers rejoice

Damn, clickbait headline wins [the attention] yet again…

I give this a score of 10/0

I use it as a step counter and a sleep tracker every night (with plugin), don’t use any of the built-in activities though

routinely get nearly two weeks out of my Venu 3

Are we gonna gloss over the fact that the EEOC was storing plaintext passwords? Fucking incompetent

Just means we will have to wipe the preinstalled OS, as is already the custom. Also means there will likely be efforts to lock down consumer devices similar to how Android OEMs make it difficult to impossible to unlock the bootloader

If it was a hole and looked like that when viewed from below in the first panels, the tail on the speech balloon would be on the top side of it when viewed from above, not the bottom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day

Reasonable and nuanced take, you love to see it!

A somewhat more hopeful take is that this strategy could be weaponized against misinformation too.

No longer do you have A: as a floppy drive, now it’s C: as a sloppy drive

Aircela is targeting >50% end to end power efficiency. Since there is about 37kWh of energy in a gallon of gasoline we will require about 75kWh to make it. When we power our machines with standalone, off-grid, photovoltaic panels this will correspond to less than $1.50/gallon in energy cost.

Meanwhile, an electric vehicle could go hundreds of miles on the same amount of energy input…

Hi, I am that nerd, it’s Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open taskmgr, actually.

…I hope to be able to develop a similar level of nerd when I switch to Linux soon

If a hacker can get into the device remotely it can be an entry point to your home network.

The much bigger concern is that the pathway used to send the remote kill command could very easily be utilized by nefarious actors.

In addition to what another poster said about getting an off-site backup hard drive, I would recommend looking into setting up a raid array for data redundancy with your online storage. You don’t want one hard drive failure to make all of your data inaccessible.